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Engineering Design: A Partnership Approach
Author(s) -
Catalano George D.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1994.tb01091.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , capstone , curriculum , engineering ethics , value (mathematics) , engineering education , competition (biology) , engineering , pedagogy , sociology , political science , engineering management , computer science , ecology , algorithm , machine learning , law , biology
A bstract The capstone, two‐semester, senior design sequence in the mechanical engineering curriculum was restructured and offered based upon a paradigm of partnership rather than competition. Partnership, requiring trust not only among the students but also of the professor, empowers students to view their responsibilities to their profession, their clients and employers, the public, and the environment in a much more personal and thus meaningful matter. The value‐laden nature of the engineering profession and its historical attitudes and biases with respect to the natural world have been examined extensively.